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Diet coke addict & peanut butter lover

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

pure unadulterated racism against a us congresswoman sitting at 34k likes. there is nothing redeemable about the conservative movement.

[🐝 @greasyquing]

@PopCrave You're putting a child into this world knowing you won't be around to help your wife or be involved in that child's life. That's really sad

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@DiscussingFilm How about reflecting that maybe you're just not funny?

[shan on the run @shanontherun]

New york city is not a real place

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

I had this exchange with Elon here on Twitter over a year ago and we are still having the same conversation so I guess…let’s do this.

Fortune 500 companies aren’t overly moral actors. They make decisions based on whether they think they will make more or less money.

Advertisers are not leaving Twitter because they are trying to make a statement or achieve some goal (which would be a boycott). They are leaving Twitter because they aren’t sure whether advertising on the platform is delivering negative or positive value, and why spend a bunch of money doing something that might actually be /hurting/ you.

The reason it might be hurting them is fuzzier. But, in my opinion, it’s not mostly to do with their ads showing up next to bigoted content. I think it’s that this platform is increasingly all about one guy in a lot of people’s minds. That one guy is both the most influential power use of the platform, and the owner of the platform.

And that guy has trained everyone to expect that he is going to say increasingly inflammatory and unhinged stuff.

That means employees and customers of those companies (who /are/ moral actors) don’t get good vibes from the company they like advertising with a company they don’t like. This is a symptom of the culture war that Elon Musk desperately wants to inflame because he is stuck inside of a really tight “you are always right” feedback loop of fans and friends who feel incapable of questioning him.

He has attained a kind of moral certainty that he is fighting a war against an existential threat to humanity. That inevitably results in either an intervention of good friends or a complete crash (often times a violent one). But that’s when the person isn’t the richest person in the world. I don’t know what happens when it’s the richest person in the world, but I’m trying not to watch it like it’s a train wreck, because, just like with train wrecks, real people are getting hurt.

That moral certainty is allowing him to do things that are very clearly bad for the economics of the platform (but good for keeping people talking about Elon Musk, which (as a person who has fallen into that trap before) is important to keep an eye on as an underlying motivation for all of this behavior.)

It is not at all surprising that large advertisers, who advertise specifically to ensure their brands are perceived positively, are leaving (at least for the moment) a platform whose biggest brand ambassador is tweeting Great Replacement theories and Pizzagate memes.

It is not an attempt to change Twitter or Elon’s behavior. It is an effort to not lose money.

[chrissy @chrissychlapp]

dear god… the things i would do for me… she’s so hot ur honor…

[sex education @sexeducation]

so proud of our girl

[James Blunt @JamesBlunt]

Come get my hoes.

[𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐡 @kwameaddoobiri_]

"In my 17 years of teaching..."

[🐝 @greasyquing]

@SomaKazima Bless, beat, beat, sleep??

[🐝 @greasyquing]

Lots of teachers cannot get up to this wage. But thid job, like many others (especially mine in social services) are incredibly under paid with super high demand. I work in a group home, incredibly mentally and physically demanding. I do not get counselling or physio benefits.

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@hasanthehun Wtf is he talking about. Why you so pressed bro

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@flwrchldtweets She look like that and he can't even change once

[Matt Novak @paleofuture]

Here's a clip from today's hearing where the Twitter exec explains why sharing child sexual abuse material isn't an automatic ban. And then an Australian senator explains why that's idiotic. https://t.co/KiUfd4iT20

[🐝 @greasyquing]

Wait is Frank; Dee's, Charlie's and Dennis's dad I dont understand

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Charlie Work episode of its always sunny is cool af

[Josh Gad @joshgad]

This site is now officially just Musk’s personal Mojo dojo casa house

[♠️ ACE of Spades™ @HanyaToderoff]

@JustinTrudeau @TimHoustonNS Why does this sound like optics again? You have never once provided support to the Canadians who need it the most: seniors, vets, the disabled and the 11 million Canadians on the verge of financial collapse. Time to get out of politics Justin. You are a total failure.

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@budweiserstage Please make a call soon so we don't have to train all the way down just for it to be cancelled 😭